Nevkontakte
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Lawful neutral. Definitely not a cat in a hat. Opinions are of Cthulhu. what/why.
Nevkontakte shared 1 year, 5 months ago
Me: let me finish this coffee and get cracking on that project I've been procrastinating on for weeks.
My brain, once the coffee kicks in: heeeey, I've got this idea for a new really cool project, 20-minute adventure, let's go.
Me, next day: I have N+1 unfinished projects now.
Apparently, for a thousand bucks-ish one could become an owner of arsetechnica[.]com. And in a way I am glad I don't have a disposable $1k laying around.
Nevkontakte shared 1 year, 6 months ago
The "return to office" plan has been championed by an exec who literally moved to the other side of the country.
Nevkontakte shared 1 year, 6 months ago
Nevkontakte shared 1 year, 6 months ago
Nobody mourned the shift from warm and thick CRTs to slender and cool LCDs more than cats. #caturday #RetroComputing
Nevkontakte shared 1 year, 6 months ago
Nevkontakte shared 1 year, 6 months ago
hey sorry I missed your text, I am processing a non-stop 24/7 onslaught of information with a brain designed to eat berries in a cave
Copyright
Copyright
How long until Slack is forced to add content id for custom emojis?
Nevkontakte shared 1 year, 6 months ago
3d printing trick: when designing a complicated part that's supposed to interface with something (idk, a phone case):
- Export a 2d drawing in 1:1 scale and print it on a regular printer. Cut it out and fit to the part. Pros: very quick and cheap iteration. Cons: meh precision, unless you have god-level scissors skills, hard time with non-flat parts.
- Make a simplified template part that's quick to 3d print and fit that. If you got some dimensions wrong, adjust, cut away all elements that fit well and re-print. Pros: actually representative of the accuracy your printer will be able to give you, can fit non-flat parts. Cons: kind of slower, though not nearly as bad as printing and scrapping the full part.
Nevkontakte shared 1 year, 6 months ago
The knight rode up to the dragon's lair.
"Dragon!" he called. "Are you still lying on your hoard?"
"I... yes," the dragon replied, after a while.
"Is it hard to get up?"
"...it is."
"Is it your body, your mind, or your heart that makes it so?"
"Why do you ask?"
"I want to help."
#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories
Nevkontakte shared 1 year, 6 months agoThe space pirates boarded, cybernetic eyes blinking madly. They hacked the ship's software update library.
"At last! Patches for our eyes!"
#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories #RepostFrom2015
Nevkontakte shared 1 year, 7 months ago
Nevkontakte shared 1 year, 7 months ago
Nevkontakte shared 1 year, 7 months ago
tech be like:
hiring a staff engineer: one req, six hours of interviews
promoting to staff: a ten page promo doc requiring months of effort, feedback from dozens of colleagues, and approval by six layers of management
… and then we wonder why the average tenure is so short.
Nevkontakte shared 1 year, 7 months ago
Pickling: The really obvious missing feature of all web browsers https://chrisdone.com/posts/browser-pickling/
Nevkontakte shared 1 year, 7 months ago
Nevkontakte shared 1 year, 7 months ago
@glennf @gruber A great feature for any Mac with ≥2 USB C ports would be built-in cable testing. You plug both ends of one cable to the Mac, and the OS automatically detects that, no UI needed, and pops up a dialog saying “this cable supports x mbps and x Watts power delivery”. That’s it, there is no step 3!
Nevkontakte shared 1 year, 7 months ago@glennf @gruber A great feature for any Mac with ≥2 USB C ports would be built-in cable testing. You plug both ends of one cable to the Mac, and the OS automatically detects that, no UI needed, and pops up a dialog saying “this cable supports x mbps and x Watts power delivery”. That’s it, there is no step 3!